What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?

Spellcheck, and it perfectly encapsulates Apple’s view of their customers, that Apple knows what’s best, better than their customers. In iOS, if you have spellcheck turned on, it automatically changes your words based on what it assumes you meant. You have to actually tap the word bubble that pops up to cancel it, which seems completely ass-backwards to me. The word bubble should be their suggestion, but then let the user make that call. They just assume you’re the idiot and they’re right. Sometimes that’s fine, but sometimes I’m just using slang or an abbreviation or a foreign word or it completely picks the wrong word and spellcheck fucks you over.

Yeah that’s so ducking annoying.
- Incredibly, I went out to buy a duck for our Christmas roast the other day, and at one text my wife to tell her “I’m just looking for a fuck”.
- They just fucking changed this so it autocorrects to your most commonly fucking typed words, they even fucking pointed it out in the presentation.
  
  See, works great. I even tried to type 🦆ing and it autocorrected to F.
  
  Autocorrect has gotten significantly better. I don’t even need to swype anymore.
Yes, spell check… autocorrect. Rage inducing.

Also, something happened in newer releases of iOS, where sometimes you can’t tap your finger to place the cursor on a paragraph of text. Ends up selecting an entire word instead of putting the cursor between words. Sometimes does that, sometimes places cursor. It’s random, or at least I don’t know what causes it to get in that mode.

Also, another thing that boils my blood. Typing on this thing, getting almost an entire paragraph typed out, then suddenly the last sentence is selected, and the next character I type replaces it all, essentially deleting everything. Sure I can undo but it completely demolishes the stack in my brain that I was trying to convey.
- A little known feature, you can hold space and swipe left/right to control text cursor.
- I was going to mention this if nobody else had. Easily the thing that makes me angriest most frequently on my iPhone is its behavior when trying to type out and edit longer comments. I honestly don’t know what’s going on when it starts acting funky, but the more time I spend, the weirder it gets. Sometimes I’ll try to place the cursor and it will select a word on a completely different line (it just happened when typing this up that I selected a word in the latest line of this comment and it selected the very first “I” at the top and started overwriting it). Sometimes when I try to change or retype a word, autocorrect suggests the new word mashed together with the old word. When a comment gets too long, the screen bumps up to the top of the page after every new word is added so it’s almost impossible to see what I’m typing. I don’t know if it’s the iPhone, the browser, or the webpage, but it’s a terrible experience.
  
  Then sometimes it’s perfectly fine.
settings > keyboard > auto-correction: off
...
that was pretty easy...
- Right, but now there’s no autocorrect at all. A middle ground would be nice.

The removal of 3D Touch

I'm still so mad about that. I was so excited to have that feature but I was a broke college student through the whole of its lifespan. I ended up jumping from an iPhone 6 to a 12 mini, missing 3D touch entirely.
- 6 to XR, so yeah, same.
- 6 to 12 mini gang! I hate it they abandoned the mini’s. I’ll prob get an SE next.

Recently switched from Android. What’s pissing me off the most is the back button on every app being on the top left. They chose the least accessible place to put the most common action.

In fairness, most apps have a swipe action to go back. The button is almost vestigial.
- What? Where do you swipe and on which direction?
- Not to return to the previous app. Here in Denmark, we often have to logon through an official logon app. But to return to the app logging into, you must either press upper left corner or manually switch app. Swiping from the left, will not exit and return to previous app
same... you can swipe back a lot of times though...
You can swipe left and right along the bottom (where the little bar is) to switch apps.
It made since when iPhones were small enough to be used with one hand.

Now that they are all phablets, they introduced the double tap on the home button to slide the top half of the screen down. No idea if this shortcut exists for devices without a home button.
Also apps fill in the Home Screen from the top left… why.
I'm curious. What made you switch from Android. I went from Apple to Android and I can never go back to a walled garden
- My old phone had reached ‘thoroughly shagged out’ levels of wear and I needed a replacement.
  
  iPhone seemed to be an easy to use and well polished interface (and it has been for the most part, despite this back button weirdness).
  
  iPhones by most accounts have really good build quality now.
  
  I’m absolutely done with Google and their data harvesting ways. Apple are much better, and sure they no doubt record usage habits for their own purposes, there’s little evidence I’ve seen that they sell that data on. Also, I cannot be arsed to fuck around with GrapheneOS, I like privacy, but I’m not militant about it, and still want access to apps.
  
  I like the aesthetic.
  
  I never had an iPhone, and if I’m ever to have a valid opinion on them, I ought to use one instead of blindly following a brand and repeating second hand opinions.
  
  For similar reasons to 6, I want to try a Mac at some point soon as well, and iPhone has some neat tricks with it.
  
  The camera quality is fantastic.
  
  While I came from outside a walled garden, I used maybe two apps which had to be sideloaded. The only one I really miss is newpipe, but there’s browser based solutions for YouTube. I’ve just reached a point in my life where I want my phone to ‘just work’ and I don’t care about being a power user, least of all on my phone.
It's one of the things keeping me from moving. I need a back button and the software ones are dumb AF.

When windows steal focus in macOS. If I am opening an app it should be able to open in the background while I do something else. Same with a “file copy” dialog in Finder. So many apps and windows repeatedly steal focus and push themselves to the top and it’s so frustrating.

Oh Christ yes. If I’m using an app, then I don’t give a shit if another app wants my attention.
- Yes! Don't you bounce your icon at me, bitch. I see you and I will get there when I'm ready.
To be fair this also happens in Windows (Zoom anyone?) and probably Linux too, although for the latter that may be customizable.
- Yep, this bad design is everywhere. Typing my password when a text editor opens…
I hate this so much! Some apps do this even multiple times during startup.
- Yes! You push them to the background and then they jump back up front again. Who asked for this? Why is this? Whyyy???
It's even worse when using stage manager
- Yes! If you have a full screen app open with stage manager active on your primary desktop, swiping between the full screen app and the desktop basically becomes a game of app roulette.
It is possible to turn this off. I did.
- So… do you mind telling the rest of us how to do this? I don't see a setting anywhere to change this behavior.

Siri is pretty much useless. When I see how well something like Alexa works, I really don’t understand how Apple can be so far behind on that technology.

I have Alexa. It's pretty crappy too.
- The thing that bugs me about Alexa is that I will ask a question and it will answer as it should, but then continues, “By the way, …” and tells me something completely unrelated. I understand they are trying to inform of other features and capabilities, but I don’t want to hear about them and wish I could turn this off.
- I've used both extensively and Alexa is miles ahead of Siri.
This is the biggest issue for me too, but Apple is working on on-device LLMs so I'm hoping they use that to improve Siri drastically
Yes and if you want to use your phone in your car then you have to have Siri enabled. It’s the one thing I won’t enable to use CarPlay.
I only use Siri to start timers when cooking, do quick maths and conversions, and to pull up random things that my wife and I are discussing that we don’t know the answer to. It works well with just those use-cases.
Agree. Recently purchased an Homepod Mini for my Mac Mini and Siri is so bad compared to Alexa.
I use Alexa and Siri. Siri is leaps and bounds better than Alexa.

Set a timer on the iPhone, both iPhone and Apple Watch will ring. Set a timer on the Apple Watch, only the watch will ring.

Also all used timers in the past are not synced on both devices.

Also, why doesn’t my watch show the timer I set on the phone by default? I just set a timer for five minutes. Why else do you think I’m looking at the watch?
- This drives me bonkers. The timers should be synced.

I can’t simply copy a music file and set it as a ring tone. It’s the most basic feature that android has since forever, and I need to do a pagan ritual with iTunes and audio editors to maybe make it work.

No and they clearly could but then you wouldn't need to buy them from the ringtone store. In other news, you can use any song as a custom alarm's sound... but not your daily Sleep alarm.
wait, you still use your smartphone as a phone?!?
- IKR? Talk about the tiniest thing ever...

What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:

In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.

Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!

I wish I'd known about the Siri command but the details/overview navigation option still exists. It's toggled by tapping the button on the top-right of the screenshot shown on this support page: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-turn-by-turn-directions-iph215b053f6/ios
- I've used this button before. I swear it does something slightly different than saying "details" did. Like it doesn't preserve North-up map orientation or something. Without having the old voice command, I can't check to verify. Thank you for taking the time to highlight the button, though!
Just don't rely on Siri for anything and you won't be disappointed. I finally said "enough is enough" when she stopped even letting me rate the song that was playing.

Complete lack of support for clipboard history. This annoys me daily.

If you're talking about MacOS, I've been using Maccy for this
- Sorry, right, I was referring to iOS. On macOS I use Alfred for clipboard history. Works great.

That you can´t disable the open camera gesture on the lock screen. Drives me crazy ...

Dude, I miss when lock screens were lock screens. I want nothing on my lock screen other than an unlock method. I’m always hitting flashlight and camera when I pick up my phone. Then when I cave, and decide to start using the camera button for quick pictures, it requires the most perfect press, right in the center, otherwise it refuses to register. It’s engraging.

Edit: as I type this on an iOS device, I am deciding I hate autocorrect more.
- I like the new widgets for the lock screen in iPad OS 17 but I really hope Apple decides one day that camera is an option.
  
  Agree. Autocorrect is really annoying, especially on the iPad so I installed Google keyboard. Using an Android smartphone makes using the Apple keyboard even worse.

Cutting and pasting files not being a thing

The change a few years back when a lot of apps changed the "maximize" button to full screen instead and not only does that suck it's inconsistent between apps

There not being a shortcut key to switch between monitor modes

They can't keep the best part of the OS consistent. The system preferences menu was well organized years ago. Every few months they fuck with it in a way that makes it a little worse

"Natural" scrolling suddenly was default and precisely opposite to how people had been scrolling for 20 years

Updates keep changing apps -- just pick a way and stick with it

Xcode is bloated garbage

Natural scrolling confused me for a good hour or so, but I figured I’d stick with it. I’m glad I did, because it actually does make more sense to me.
- The same thing happened to me. I spent years changing the setting to traditional scrolling. Then, one day, my brain just flipped, and now I make registry edits to Windows to enable natural scrolling there, too. I suddenly can’t live without it.
- Natural - you’re moving the content
  
  Unnatural (?) - you’re moving the scroll bar
- I hate "natural" scrolling so much lol, I reverse it first thing with each new OS install
Cutting and pasting files not being a thing

On macOS? Press option+v to move the file instead of copying it. I actually think it's better because it means you have "more time" to decide which action to do (vs. ctrl+x where you have to decide upfront).
- I mean that's just called moving. Another way to do cut + paste, except on MacOS we don't have this specific option, vs every other OS I've used, we do.

All the processing power in an iPad, but no calculator. But my Apple watch has one.

How advanced of a calculator do you need? You can do a lot with the search bar.
- I'd like a calculator that doesn't require internet, so not advanced at all...

MacBook: I use two screens and I constantly move the bottom bar between them by accident. The only built-in way to override that is to fix both screens as the same workspace, but this means any time you use fullscreen, the other screen also switches to "another" workspace.

I switched from Windows a few years ago, and I had the hardest time getting used to moving/maximizing/resizing windows on Mac.

Not sure if that's what you mean, but if so then "Rectangle" solved all my window management problems, so much so I bought the pro version almost immediately.
This is really annoying, also sometimes (usually after going fullscreen) when double clicking the window bar. When it should go almost from windowed to maximize, it ignores the bottom bar and go almost full screen with the bottom bar obstructing the maximized windows

The lack of real mouse support in iPad OS.

My gaming rig is currently out of commission undergoing repairs, but I was luckily able to continue participating in my multiplayer Baldur's Gate 3 nights using Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming. However, I've been forced to learn how to play using a controller, because iPad OS does not have real mouse support.

I was able to plug my iPad into a thunderbolt dock which gives me keyboard input, wired internet, and a "cursor", but the cursor is only a simulation of touch input rather than an actual cursor.

I can see how for games that could be frustrating, but when going around the general interface I quite like the adaptive cursor and how it snaps to buttons and changes based on context.
- Oh yeah for native iPad features it's kinda neat, albeit it takes some getting used to. But when you just want a basic mouse, it would be nice to have it behave that way when there aren't fancy native UI elements to snap to.
It bugs me immensely that, in order to have Hot Corners, you have to turn on Assistive Touch and have that button floating on the screen.
I dislike how inconsistent or broken scrolling can be for third party mice. And the lack of customization options for extra buttons.

Separate volume sliders in iOS for ringtone,media, notification, and alarms

Fucking this, it really kills me me that after all this time we still don’t have this level of configuration. There is clearly a difference between alarm volume and audio volume, so give us separate sliders!
- Agreed. And why can we not permanently change the Timer notification sound? If you change it in app, then close, it will revert to the Redial sound. And unlike the Alarm, Ring tone, etc, there’s no option to change it in settings. So annoying.
This is still not a thing???
- I decided to get an 15 this year after using Pixels for a while. I haven't seen it if it exists...

the Podcast app eats 30% of my battery in an hour just listening to an audio file....

Wild, mine doesn’t. Do you think it depends on what podcast?
- maybe? i've been listening to LPoTL and hardcore history....
  when i search for it, im definitely not the only one with this problem.
I don’t use the podcast app (I use Overcast), but if this were happening, I’d check if it’s downloading a bunch of new podcasts in the background or something and see if there’s a setting to limit that.
- i think we're all computer guys on this here lemmy... but i definitely checked that.
  searching the webs, a lot of people have this problem.
  i think it might just be too high of quality audio...
  but, thanks... i'll check out overcast

When disabling WiFi or Bluetooth in the quick toggles, it just turns it off until tomorrow. No way to change that behavior. That just really annoys me.

Probably to avoid a thief being able to block any hide-my-device attempts without using the pin?
Is this on iOS? My Mac has had WiFi disabled for six months, running Ethernet only. I have never had to turn it back off. Latest version of Monterey.
- It's the control center specifically I think. You can turn it off correctly in the settings, but the toggle is fake "not really off" nonsense.
- It's iPadOS to be specific, but Apple probably does the same thing with iOS.

The mouse acceleration present in all Apple platforms that you can’t turn off unless you change system files on a Mac. It makes using an iPad as a work computer difficult.

I don't experience this on my Mac. Because I am using an app called "Linear Mouse". Maybe that would help you without changing system files. And it makes scrolling more natural.

https://linearmouse.app
- It would! If it worked on an iPad. But I’ll keep it in mind if I get a Mac in the future. Ty!

macOS: Lack of official support for models that are still relevant. I've got the last MacBook Pro that was fully upgradable, a mid 2012 model with a dual core 4th gen i7. You can upgrade everything in it, and I have. 16gb of RAM, two disks, one an SSD, and the other a large HDD. But the latest official version of MacOS is Catalina. But I'm running Ventura on it now with no issues. And in similar respect, no upgradability at all of the new Macs after purchase. It's very anti consumer.

Look for open core legacy on google, I have somona on a early 2015 mbp running great
- They’re running Ventura, so they’re using something to get there. :)
How else would they force you to pay 4x market rates for SSD and RAM if they don't force you to buy a new non upgradable machine?

The TrueType vulnerability they patched in January 2023 without notifying the public of active exploitation, leaving Kaspersky to discover it while responding to security incidents.

the app store doesn't let you see if an app has an ad banner built in or not.
ill be deep in the cold cold ground before i let some guitar tuner app download ads in the background and shove it in my face...
but how do i know which ones are bullshit without installing and uninstalling each one?
it's so stupid.
also, if i hold down the wifi quick toggle when it's locked, it asks for my pin and then just turns it off... that should be a single press.
if i hold it while it's unlocked, i get the expected wifi settings menu, so i can select a network or whathaveyou...
death by 1,000 paper cuts
oh and to beat a dead horse: not letting me sideload my own apps on my own device is complete bullshit

Apps have become so monetized now that I just don't use new ones any more and just keep the ones I bought 10 years ago.
Speaking of the App Store… I want a guitar tuner app that doesn’t collect information, but I can’t search with that as a filter so instead I have to open each app to check the privacy first.
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tonalenergy-tuner-metronome/id497716362
  
  This is the one I used to use in high school. It looks like it collects about as little as you can get these days.
- Any luck with that?

Here’s another one— click through on macOS. Coming from other systems I find it infuriating. Not just the click though itself but its inconsistency, where it works in browsers and some other selected programs but not in most.

For those not aware, click through is when you’re focused on another window and click on this one. With click through, it will immediately action what you click without you have to click first to the window then click again. This isn’t inherently inferior, but I really don’t like it personally. And it is absolutely impossible to change this behavior on MacOS by any means. Believe me, I researched this extensively.

There is an app I found that will autofocus the app you hover over so it takes away that extra click you have to do — effectively making a click through. It worked, but I found it felt a little weird just often enough that I turned it off.

But I agree I wish there was an option to click through.

iPadOS using an external keyboard:

There’s no way to force the software to input a lowercase letter when it wants to autocapitalize. For example: when putting in an email into a form — where the input doesn’t have proper attributes — it’ll default to inputting an uppercase letter and you can’t force a lowercase. You end up having to type the starting letter twice and deleting the first letter. (Have to type “Eemail” then delete the first letter.) Edit: Apparently you can tap shift twice to go lowercase, as described here (https://lemmy.world/comment/6294849). Thank you! I obviously can’t recall any time Apple has described this behavior anywhere.
The second and worse thing is that language icon that shows up when you type. That little thing that hovers in the corner of the app mostly in the way of the input. Yes you can move it, but now it’s in the way of something else. It’s basically useless, and apps end up getting all funky looking because elements try to move around it. This is especially bad in stage manager. They need to axe it or move it to one of the myriad commands you can access by holding Option.

Edit(s) as I think of them:

watchOS:

Let me download a podcast anytime I want. Put a freaking button in the podcast app that says “download to watch.” I don’t care if it eats battery. The current way to manage podcasts on the watch is abysmal.

iOS:

Someone thought it was a good idea to add bird sounds to the “rain” background noise, and I’m so mad about it. I want rain, not loud bird garbage. I turn on the sound because I’m trying to drown out noise like that. (Aside that’s not Apple’s fault: I’d love to buy something like Dark Noise, but I don’t want a subscription for that, and $50 for the one time purchase is crazy.)

Hit shift twice in a row, then you can type a lowercase letter at the beginning of a sentence.
- Well I’ll be damned, you’re right!
  
  Chalk this one up to one of those secret interface things Apple does super poorly to describe or explain!

The headphone decibel meter on the watch doesn't mirror the phone. I like to make sure I'm not blowing my ears out listening to music, but the watch one only ever shows if music is played directly from the watch, so if I want to know how loud my headphones are I have to pull out the phone.

For the longest time I thought it was a bug so I spent months chatting with support. Took forever to get anywhere because the support reps weren't really familiar with the feature, lol...

Here are some things, some minor and some major, in general I think Apple software is not up to their previous standars and just mediocre, not bad, but neither good anymore…

Phone app doesn’t have an in depth history of every call, just some of the last conversations.
Spellcheck: someten alterado Saiz it (someone already said it…)
Maps: Sent several corrections with detailed info and images but more than half are not fixed. I just don’t care anymore.
Siri: I just don’t know where to begin.
Apple Arcade: searching through Apple Arcade games is a nightmare.

My tiny gripe…

On iOS, I have set a couple weekly to-do items (recurring) that all have sub-tasks….

Except there isn’t a way to just see the subtasks? I have to click into the reminder, scroll down to subtasks and click into that.

What the heck?!?

in Safari on the iphone you have the searchbar at the bottom but on the ipad you have it on the top and can't change it...

settings > safari > tabs > single tab (from tab bar)
- its still on top?
As an iPad mini user, this pisses me off. It’s essentially an enormous iPhone, so let me maintain consistency.

You Turn off mobile data.

“Your mobile data is offline” OK to continue.

No shit 💩

Apple Watch 10 removed the option for pinning apps to the Task Switcher. It's now way more inconvenient to scroll through the App List to find what I want at that moment.

You can edit the app waterfall though and put your most used at the top. It’s not the Task Switcher, but it cut searching time down a lot.

The tab view in Safari was changed from a Rolodex like view to tiny cards. But the cards are often too small to read, forcing me to click it to see what is on it. I end up leaving 30 tabs open because I don’t know if one is safe to close.

When you click on an app icon on the dock, on an app that is already open with several minimized windows, it doesnt expand the most recently used window. This is especially with Mail and Preview.

CarPlay at least for me is a mess after every update, audio just cuts out and reconnecting has no effect until my iPhone is reset and car turned off and on

This might be a problem with your vehicle.

The command/control split is a constant source of annoyance. I really wish they would just abandon that one and get with the rest of the world.

You mean move stuff like copy and paste to CTRL?

I super disagree with that, personally. It’s so much more comfy to move your thumb slightly over to hit Option than it is to reach a pinky down to hit CTRL.
- If command was just the control key moved over I wouldn’t have a problem with it, the issue is that the control key still exists and is used in a lot of applications, often inconsistently. It’s a constant frustration to me when I hit the wrong one either due to muscle memory or simply because I forgot how each specific application is set up.
  
  The argument for separation the command and control keys isn’t entirely wrong as using the control key for gui shortcuts was always a bit of a hack, but OSX doesn’t actually have any way to enforce the separation there, so it just makes the user experience worse in 3rd party applications which weren’t written primarily for OSX, which is unfortunately the case for most applications I use.

No back button or consistent back action, can't swipe back from either side of the screen like you can with Android.
When there is a back button, it's in the #1 most inaccessible part of the screen
Can only use Safari (other brosers are just themed Safari)
Because you can't have other browsers, you can't have browser plugins.
You can use a custom keyboard... But only sometimes. It won't let you do it for passwords. This is very frustrating as their stock keyboard sucks ass and you don't have that muscle memory, they should just do it all the time.
iMessage
Inability to side load apps or install from places outside the app store that extorts developers

These are a few things that if resolved, would make me decide to use iOS over Android.

Swiping from the left side of the screen is almost always back
Not saying this is a fix, but for people with small hands such as myself, swiping down on the switcher bar at the bottom of the screen pulls the whole upper half of the screen down to keyboard level. It’s called “reachability” and was introduced back when Apple started selling massive phones. It’s an extra step, so not ideal in frequent usage, but if you can’t afford to fumble around with your phone to tap a button on the top, it helps.

I dislike having icons on home screen, I use drawers and the only place that has icon is the dock.

No option for focus follows mouse. And no way to implement it due to the way the menu bar works.

The iOS message interface, specifically the audio message button. I goddamned always hit that goddamned recording button right after hitting send, or sometimes when picking up my phone if the screen is still on. And then I have to both x the recording to stop it, and delete the blank 1-5 second message. Just put that button somewhere else like on the other side, not replacing the send button. It sucks. I hate it passionately.

Happens multiple times a day, drives me absolutely batty. I have literally never used speech to text or voice messages on my phone, except by accident. And I don’t want to, either. I’d like to disable it but 1. I haven’t found a way, and 2, I assume if I manage to do so, it will cause other problems, like it’ll probably disable speech to text on my watch also (which I do want to keep, because I’ve used it there), because Apple -sucks- at user control and configuration.

Also, the fact that I can’t change ringtones to non-default options without either spending money or going through a massive process to convert an existing ringtone with their software, which conveniently only runs on Mac (which I don’t have because fuck apple walled garden bullshit). Seriously, wtf is that shit? Greedy swine.

I don’t think I have ever done that. But don’t you have to hold it down now to record? Probably to fix this exact issue.
- No, it still only takes a single press, just checked it.
there's other ways to change ringtones
- I’m all ears. Cuz I’ve looked and can’t find any way to use the set of tones I had on my android. I have them saved on my phone, and spent days trying to find a solution. I really hate the default tones.
  
  Only options I’ve found were buy sounds through iTunes (or possibly another shitty app with minimal options), or use garage band to convert them, which is apple software and only compatible with Mac. Sure I could hypothetically set up a vm of Mac, but that’s a lot of work for something I shouldn’t have to do a lot of work on at all.
  
  If you know of a different way, do tell.

Clipboard management on iOS. At least I can get Maccy on macOS, but on iOS I’m just stuck to suffer through copy/paste hell.

This is for watchOS, but when you add a watchface, look closely at the activity digital face... There is an activity complication in the corner. It makes me SO mad, I chatted with Apple and they just ended it. I really hate it.

App Window management in Mac OS is beyond infuriating. Time ago it was non existent so you had to download a third party app to enable a clunky version, now it exists but you have to right click on the green dot and hope the snapping menu pops up (sometimes it opens some other menu). I just want MS Windows style “move an app window to the side of the screen and have it automatically snap to take up that half (or quarter)” not the clunky idiotic implementation Apple has provided. The number of hours I have racked up wasting my time resizing and moving windows around manually is obscene.

Also hardware related: the fucking charging port on the magic mouse will go down in history as the stupidest, anti-user design decision in human history.

I was never able to get annoyed with the mouse charging port. The idea was that you could plug it in for a few minutes, go and make a coffee / have a piss / whatever, and when you came back it was good for weeks worth of juice. Ultimately, Apple didn’t want people using their wireless mouse with a wire.

But it does lead to a discussion about what art means to the viewer vs the artist. Apple’s job was to make a mouse to sell to users, and the users job is to use it however they see fit. Trouble is, Apple are terrible for not wanting the users to cloud what their vision is for their products.
- I don’t know what world you live in where you can plug those things in for a “few minutes” and it be good for weeks of use.
  
  I am sick of apple apologists saying apple didnt want people using their wireless mouse plugged in. If that was the case they’d also make their wireless keyboard charge port be on the bottom.
  
  Fact is it’s a shitty design that they’ve been too lazy to change or update for over a decade.
  
  Also, industrial design is not “art.” It is a craft that, when wielded responsibly, creates a product that is as user friendly as possible.

ipados sometimes shows me annoying translucent grey boxes in the app menu until I reboot. (I think this is the smallest problem I have with ipados, but I'm sure I could list more)

swinging back around because I was just reminded of this trying to get to a calculator: iPad OS still not having a built in calculator in 2023 because Lord God Steve Jobs proclaimed a million years ago you can just use your iPhone. Sure you can. but why is that a reason to not have a feature? Fucking infuriating.

I was reminded of this last night when I opened the calculator on my Watch, and did a sensible chuckle.

How useless the mail app is.

The calculator needs to allow a few more digits.

I’m curious what you dislike about mail. I find it nicer that Outlook or gmail, and generally read all email there (on iOS). I currently use it for about half a dozen email accounts, including several gmail and outlook accounts, as well as my work email
I second this, everytime I shut the mail app down or sleep my Mac the mail app prompts me to sign in again with my Gmail accounts. (could also be Google of course) - if anyone has a good suggestion for a better email client that supports ProtonMail bridge, I'd love to hear about it.
- Thunderbird, or at least it supports the bridge app on Linux.
Soon thunderbird will come to iOS so that's great for those that use iOS.

When I save things and then go try to find them in Files and they aren't there, only to find out later they ended up in some hidden part of the file system that Files doesn't see.

Some notifications only have the option to snooze, not dismiss.

MacOS: that it is not possible to permanently connect my Mac Mini to my Homepod Mini and also to get rid of the 2s audio delay. It drives me mad when I move forward in a song or YouTube video (same on iPad)

MacOS — making me go into system settings to allow an app to install that I’ve initiated. I know where the app comes from, I just downloaded it, why do I have to tell my own computer I trust myself to not be an idiot?

iPadOS — multitasking. I know that things are better than they used to be but it’s still a clunky experience to use multiple windows or flip back and forth between them unless you use a keyboard (at which point why wouldn’t I just use a laptop?)

iOS — not a lot these days. I’d still like to be able to customise my Home Screen layouts more, and shortcuts are still pretty unreliable, but I’m largely happy with iOS itself.

watchOS — better customisation for the widgets section. Let me have multiple complication/shortcut blocks, let me organise widgets more easily, etc. More watch faces would be nice too. A lot of the ones that are available are pretty ugly.

For future reference, if you control click > open on a downloaded app, it should open up without you having to confirm it in Settings. It’s still an extra action, but it’s more streamlined than having to open Settings and click a button.
- Good to know. I’m sure I’ll forget by the next time I need to do this, but nice to know it’s an option.
@HeavyDogFeet @DJDarren and more AI in MacOS and iOS, please. If I repeat a folder action three times, how hard is it to get that if I start the same action for the forth time, I would like to repeat the same sequence? Also, why do I have to correct the rather common name of my daughter 17.451 times, before the auto-correct finally gets it?

And finally; localization, which used to be a strong point of Apple, leaves a lot to be improved.

Itunes to Music. iphotos to photos Yikes. Edit: not quite a tiny thing.

This is my tinniest irritation.

The translate app tries to fit the text on the sign. Regardless on of tiny or distant it gets making it sometimes impossible to read. Can't you zoom you ask?

Yes if you take a take a picture. But first it makes enormous photo sound making people in places you are not allowed to take photo turn around. Then you need to wait for it to translate again. Tben you can zoom in.

Just because it cool to see the text actually on the screen.

No mass storage ability without using icloud or I tunes.

You can but it requires a dongle and doesn't work in most apps.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/external-storage-devices-iph95baac91f/ios

Macos can't split screen easily with meta+arrow keys

Intercom messaging from an HomeKit automation trigger.

Mine is still that (on Mac, at least) the only way to update Apple apps is by updating the whole system. Work requests we don't update our macs, and now I still can't edit texts from my computer.

Command vs ctrl for copy, paste etc. But only sometimes!

I don’t think I’ve ever used a Mac app when ctrl was how to copy and paste.
- Office is real bad but lots of terminal programs use ctrl as well.

Vocabulary Recognition Mystery:
- iPad doesn't recognize the word "Vidalia" as a word.
Home Lighting Grouping Wish:
- Annoyed that I can't create groups of lights within a room.
Delayed Photo Sync Confusion:
- Photos don't sync immediately, and you cannot make them, except for one sync at a time.
Caps Lock Quirk:
- About 70% of the time, I have to press the caps lock key twice for it to activate or deactivate.
System Settings Search Issue:
- The search function in System Settings doesn't seem to do anything.
HomePod Timer Sync Problem:
- Timer set on HomePod doesn't show up on my other devices.
Volume Control Headache:
- System sounds/music volume lacks logical control. Accidentally clicking my buds when putting them in results in ear-piercing music, I guess because I have the systems sounds volume up high.
Autocorrect Woes:
- Autocorrect has supposedly improved, but it has actually gotten significantly worse.
iOS refuses to sync ringtones I made in GarageBand across my devices. I resorted to creating them on each individual device and then iOS reverts them back to the default after a couple of minutes.